What Is Today’s Mom Really Like? You Tell Us!

Every day here at The Bump, we talk about issues that affect moms and moms-to-be: money, maternity leave, relationships, friendships, housework, parenting and more. And like to think we’ve got our fingers on the pulse of what moms really do, want, think and need. But every once in a while we need a statistical reality check.

I was very disappointed to see that this survey does not include the single mother. The first question in the survey is: are you Single, In a relationship, Married? If you select single, you do not qualify for the survey. How can this be a true reflection of the American mother when it excludes single moms?

This a survey only if your married, because apparently if your single like me, then you and your children and how you live your life and parent don’t matter to the judgemental and discriminatory editors at the bumb! HOW PATHETIC! I am once again outraged! Just because I chose to be a single mom and not abort my children in the womb does not make me any less worthy of being a mother and having my voice heard!!!!!

We weren’t able to include every mom in the survey because we’re trying to understand the motivations to work or stay-at-home of women in dual-income households. We’re in no way saying that a single mom is any less of a mom, and we’re very sorry this was misunderstood!

I still think its BS. As single moms,we still have a “choice” to go to work and earning a living or to stay home and live off government assistance and child support (if we are lucky enough to get child support) (this is not meant to insult anyone). No one forces us single moms out of bed each day (well, except for our kids) and makes us go to work. Its a choice and each of our motives are different from the other. We are individual moms with individual choices and individual motives – we are not all just the same just because we are all lumped into the same “single mom” category. It would have been nice to have been included ….but its okay, we are used to it!